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Memnonia

MEMNONIA The name presumably derived from Memnon, roughly designating the area where, to this day, the majestic statues of Memnon’s colossuses stand in the fields on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes. In other words, this is the village that arose from dynastic times around MADINAT HABU or the funerary temple of Ramses …

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Economic Activities Of Monasteries

Places / By Armia FAYEZ

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES OF MONASTERIES Despite schisms, persecutions, occasional devastation by the barbarians, and the Persian and Arab conquests in 619 and 641, respectively, the history of the Egyptian monasteries from the fourth to the eighth centuries constitutes a whole. The period was one of expansion and material prosperity. Various categories of sources—literary, papyrological, and archaeological—indicate …

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Monasteries Of The Upper Sa‘Id

Places / By Armia FAYEZ

MONASTERIES OF THE UPPER SA‘ID. The upper Sa‘id encompasses the southern third of the Nile Valley, according to its division (from Cairo to Aswan) into three sections by the ancient Greek geographers and their Arabic imitators (see Grohmann, 1959, pp. 21, 27). Left or West Bank The first site is at Abydos, which was greatly …

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Oikonomos

System / By Armia FAYEZ

OIKONOMOS A term of Greek origin denoting an ecclesiastical or monastic functionary who is involved in economic activity, a steward. As a rule, although not necessarily, he was a presbyter or deacon. In churches, the oikonomos is well attested already by the fourth century. Mention is made of an oikonomos in the episcopal church in …

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Abraham Of Hermonthis (Late Sixth Century)

Eminent / By Youssef Matta

ABRAHAM OF HERMONTHIS (late sixth century) Abraham is presented on a diptych (Crum, 1908) as the fourteenth bishop of Hermonthis. There is no mention of him in the SYNAXARION of the Coptic church. There are indeed no dates on the diptych, but we know that he was a contemporary of archbishop Damian of Alexandria (569-605). …

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